Important Announcement For Intel Macs
Apple has done it again, this time, introducing bugs in Sonoma and later that significantly degrade the performance of MP3 audio file conversions to the point of being useless on Intel based machines. The conversion of large MP3 files is currently "broken" on Intel Macs primarily due to system-level regressions in macOS Sonoma and Sequoia that do not affect Apple Silicon. Please note: this is not an issue with Apple Silicon Macs.
Apple has obviously abandoned any real support for Intel based machines. I guess they warned us. But the neglect is none the less infuriating. As a result, 19.2 will be the last supported FreyPlayer version on the Intel machines.
Changes in Version 20.3
- Updates to Linked Track function
- Updates to Shuffle Play Queue Function
- Safeguards protecting end of buffer and buffer staging conflicts
Changes in Version 20.2
- Minor Bug Fixes
Changes in Version 20.1
- Minor Bug Fix in Shuffle Play Queue
Changes in Version 20.0
- Non-disruptive Shuffle Play Queue improvements
- Requirements for 5.0 version of the remote control iPad Application
Changes in Version 19.6
- Small Improvements to the FreyPlayer Installer
- Introduced the "Shuffle Play Queue" function
Changes in Version 19.5
- Small UI Enhancements
- Improvements to Error Messages
Changes in Version 19.2
- This is the last supported version on Intel based Macs
- Optimizations for audio format conversion
Changes in Version 19.1
- More robust treatment of Hog Mode for Safari Browser
- Enhanced check for empty Library
Changes in Version 19.0
- Changes to the way Audio Unit parameters are edited for the Player, Album, and Song scopes
- Hardwired the use of the Safari browser for streaming operations
- Introduced version control for the Album Library and Preferences files
- Fixed a bug that prevented Audio Units from being properly re-ordered in a configuration
- Made changes to apply the correct background color to the Sidebar album display
Changes in Version 18.1
- Fixed a bug preventing fast forward and fast reverse from the main window
- Fixed a bug preventing AU data from being properly loaded from an album for streaming
- Made changes to schedule the initiation of streaming on a background operations queue
- Introduced the “Player Stopping” status in the main display
- Made the option for bypassing AUs persistent rather than transient
- Made optimizations to the locking of the Play Queue
- Made optimizations to the process of building the audio graph
- Fixed a bug resulting in deadlock after the Resume function was pressed
- Changed the adjustment of dB levels in the audio buffers when changing a mono track to stereo
- Made Audio Engine performance enhancements
Changes in Version 18.0
- Significant restructure of the audio engine for performance and stability
- FreyPlayer now requires MacOS Version 14.6 or higher
- Minor UI changes for MacOS Tahoe release
- Fixed bug related to drag and drop of entries in the Play Queue
- Minor updates to error messages generated in the Message Log